bdrummond
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Haven't been the any Nordic countries but we were surprised at the language skills in Portugal.The best I have met are people from Nordic countries.
Haven't been the any Nordic countries but we were surprised at the language skills in Portugal.The best I have met are people from Nordic countries.
Haven't been the any Nordic countries but we were surprised at the language skills in Portugal.
i'm SURE those replacements + shipping are tax writeoffs for them. and sending more packages lowers their overall shipping per unit prices apparently (which is why they don't really do "bundled" shipping despite saying it's an option).
In Portugal they do no francisize, or portuguize, like they do in France. Movies, series or other TV programs are not translated, they only add subtitles. Names are pronounced in the right way in the radio so Portuguese people are used to hear English pronounced correctly. Hence why Portuguese people are good at English.
One of the taxi drivers we chatted up mentioned it was mandatory to take a second language. A quick google search looks like most have to take English from grades 3-9.In Portugal they do no francisize, or portuguize, like they do in France. Movies, series or other TV programs are not translated, they only add subtitles. Names are pronounced in the right way in the radio so Portuguese people are used to hear English pronounced correctly. Hence why Portuguese people are good at English.
One of the taxi drivers we chatted up mentioned it was mandatory to take a second language. A quick google search looks like most have to take English from grades 3-9.
I’d have thought that in southern Portugal the tourist trade would also have had a large impact on that as well. The Spanish are excellent at English too because of the numbers of tourists that flock there from Britain and Ireland
One of the taxi drivers we chatted up mentioned it was mandatory to take a second language. A quick google search looks like most have to take English from grades 3-9.
I would love to know how most people from Yorkshire get on with French.Yeah in Britain they have to take a second language in school from 11-16 too. 99% take French. About 2% of those know more than Je M’Apple, J’ai x ans or Ou est le piscine/garre?
Cultural factors definitely play as much, probably more, of a role.
I would love to know how most people from Yorkshire get on with French.
My father moved to France and they told him he was unteachable because of his accent. I'm a bilingual Canadian and it's terrible by any standards.
And two they make no attempt at pronunciation, they just try and say the words phonetically as if they were in English….
I have seen this with French people. I remember having lunch at a restaurant in Greece and close from us was a French lady talking in French to the waiter like if he was dumb. Like very slow and articulating so he could understand. Poor guy probably knows more in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and of course Greek than she knows in French.
Yeah, definitely experienced the same! Even the people who couldn't speak English (small towns in the mountains) could understand my shitty Spanish at least - it was super easy to communicate there.Haven't been the any Nordic countries but we were surprised at the language skills in Portugal.
I think last copies of Willie Anthology and Ghetto Anthology will be there. Not sure what else!
I am a perfect example of what 12 years of BC public school French can teach you.One of the taxi drivers we chatted up mentioned it was mandatory to take a second language. A quick google search looks like most have to take English from grades 3-9.
Same. I hated it so much at the time - straight As, but a C- in French - but now wish I’d paid more attention. I even put my kids in French Immersion and have taken them to France for a six week summer trip in 2019.I am a perfect example of what 12 years of BC public school French can teach you.